Here's what to know to avoid getting scammed on Ebay, and a bit of insight into how some shady sellers will try to scam you.

So you won an Ebay auction or purchased an item through the "BuyItNow" option, you paid with Paypal and now you are waiting for your parcel to arrive. Sometimes a tracking number is included that never shows updated information, like if the tracking number was fake. The last estimated time of arrival has passed by a week or two, now what?

WARNING: Follow this guide at your own risk, YOU assume total and full responsibility and exonerate me from any liability and/or responsibility if the process leads to a bricked or otherwise faulty device. - Having said that, I've never heard of anybody bricking their device following this process, just sayin'.

This is a step-by-step guide to get the best out of your Samsung device. The device used in this guide was a Galaxy S3 GT-i9300, but THIS GUIDE WORKS for ANY and EVERY SAMSUNG android device (just use the correct files for it.)

Go to a second hand store and buy a pair of men's used size 14-16 work boots.

Place them on your front porch, along with a copy of Guns & Ammo Magazine.

Put a few giant dog dishes next to the boots and magazines.

Leave a note on your door that reads:

"Bubba,

Bertha, Duke, Slim, & I went for more ammo and beer. Be back in an hour. Don't mess with the pit bulls; they attacked the mailman this morning and messed him up bad. I don't think Killer took part, but it was hard to tell from all the blood. Anyway, I locked all four of 'em in the house.

These are many ways of extracting an .apk file from your android device.

The story behind this mini-tutorial is that I help a bunch of people upgrade their Android devices periodically, as part of the upgrade process I often have to wipe them and a nandroid backup doesn't always work (like if you move from one firmware version to

another) and with the wiping some important things are lost, like: APN settings, Hebrew fonts, keyboard and other necesesary/important apps.I have to install the keyboard, fonts,and other apps every time on every device; right, you can get these apps from the market but to use the market you need to do the setup wizard to add your Google account, and since sometimes the owners of the devices aren't around to input their passwords, I need to have access to the.apk files without having to download them from the market.

Hence, I had to figure out a way to extract the .apk files from my device so I could install them on others.